JUDGE'S WARNING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 201, 26 August 1935, Page 11

JUDGE'S WARNING.

TERM FOR BURGLARY. MINIMUM OF TWELVE MONTHS DIFFICULT TO DETECT. Tho statement that he intended to impose a minmum sentence of twelve months on prisoners convicted of breaking and entering by night was made by Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court this morning. The offence, said his Honor, was difficult to detect. It was one which generally involved deliberation, and the person who' committed it knew its seriousness. His Honor had before him a Maori, Kauhoa Hernara, who had admitted breaking and entering a shop at Kaikohe. The report concerning the prisoner was a bad one, said tho judge. He had previous convictions, and was reported to live a shiftless life, and to keep bad company. Prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. John Henry Wilson was subsequently placed in the dock for sentence for breaking and entering a shop. He had been committed from Helensville. His Honor mentioned that the prisoner had been sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Hamilton last week for the same class of offence. He, too, had a bad record. The sentence of twelve months' imprisonment was made concurrent with that at present being served.